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Yang Ming boxship takes out three cranes in Turkey
A 14,000 teu Yang Ming containership knocked out three giant quay cranes at a Turkish port on Saturday.
One crane operator was seriously injured when the 368 m long YM Witness got its docking procedures badly wrong when calling at Evyap port with a pilot onboard.
Several containers also fell from the ship in the ensuing crane domino chaos with one crane landing in the middle of the 2015-built ship.
Investigations into the accident are underway.
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